Taking A Road Trip
I think I am due for a nice long road trip. I haven’t taken a trip in the last few years and I really could use the break from everything. I like a road trip that has a purpose, so you have a chosen destination in mind. It’s just fun stopping at all the places along the way to shop and eat food you have never ate before. I always have a rule with the people that travel with me; if you can eat it in Canton, Georgia we aren’t going to eat there. Why drive a million miles to eat at a McDonalds, when most of us can do that in our own hometown. I prefer to eat some where I have never ate before and it makes those long trips have more of a purpose.
I love the movie Color of Money with Tom Cruise and Paul Newman. I like to shoot pool and that is one road trip I would be up for anytime. Traveling across different states and stopping at every pool hall you see along the way. That would be a great road trip and I have always wanted to do that. A buddy of mine that has passed away now, use to talk about taking a road trip like that. I think we were planning to do it one day, just waiting to our pool games to catch up with Vinny’s on the Color of Money. Now that he’s gone, I’m not sure if I have any friends that might be willing to take such a journey and it would be a journey of the unknown. You never know what you might find in a pool hall and which people in there are buddies and which ones that are not.
I think I might be going to Florida this year and we will drive there. I think we will be going around the Daytona area of Florida and it’s about an 8 or 9 hour drive from my home in North Georgia. So I will get a little bit of my road trip cravings out of my system this summer. I love going to Florida and it’s a great place to take a week’s vacation for anyone that has never been to the Sunshine State. Lots to do and see and no matter where you’re at in Florida; you’re always like 50 or 60 miles from the ocean. You can hear all the cool stats about Florida, once you go pass the Georgia border and tune in your AM radio to the station that will be on the road signs. I think one of my favorite things to do in Florida is the greyhound track. Daytona has a greyhound track right next to Daytona Speedway and I won the most money ever there on one of those races a few years back.
I have never did a lot of traveling up north, but taking a ride up to Vermont or a place like that sounds fun. I would really like to spend the enitre winter at a place that receives a lot of snow. I always thought it would be fun chopping up the firewood and cleaning the store shelves off, so you could stock up on all your winter supplies. Get everything ready and all the firewood cut right before the first flakes fell and once the snows came in, it would be impossible to leave because the snow is so deep. So you would have to wait out the entire winter in your cabin and the supplies you chose to bring. It would be a survival type adventure, but I always wanted to test my survival skills and having to spend an entire winter in a cabin up north would certainly do that.
Have you taken a road trip recently? Have you got plans in the near future to hit the road? Please share your road stories with me (good or bad) and see if you can help me plan a future road trip. Or perhaps keep me from going on a certain type of road trip.
